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Wind River VxWorks RTOS v6.9 Features 64-bit Support

Wind River announced version 6.9 of VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS). VxWorks 6.9 features 64-bit computing support (in data and code execution) and improved multi-core processing support in both symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and asymmetrical multiprocessing (AMP) configurations. VxWorks 6.9 is the first commercial-grade RTOS to fully support 32-bit and 64-bit processing on Intel Architecture. VxWorks 6.9 will be available in March. 64-bit VxWorks RTOS is ideal for telecommunications (such as network infrastructure equipment), industrial and medical applications (like high-definition imagery), and aerospace and defense applications (like highly complex radar, sonar and sensors).

Support for the ARM Cortex A9 processor, with a multi-core SMP and ARM Thumb-2 instruction set

Enhanced networking capabilities, including new security features and increased Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments (IETF RFC) support

Creates higher-performance, hardware-optimized, multi-core powered products, on the latest silicon, with reduced risk and development investment

Speeds time-to-market by using commercially available and supported run-time platforms and developer tools with support for multiprocessing

Increases productivity by using the same development process and environment as for uniprocessor development, leveraging multiprocessing extensions to existing development tools

Partitions available hardware resources in a multi-core environment between multiple SMP and unsupervised AMP operating system configurations, including the ability to run multiple SMP operating systems side by side

Leverages Wind River Hypervisor to enable flexible multi-core configurations such as multi-OS, supervised AMP, and combinations of AMP and SMP on the same platform